Saint-Maclou is the great flamboyant Gothic parish church of Rouen, built in the late 15th and early 16th centuries when the style had reached its decorative limit. The pentagonal porch with its five gabled archways and carved oak doors is the photographic centrepiece; the interior is small, vertical, and almost over-elaborate in its tracery.
The church was badly bombed in 1944 and the cleanup and restoration took decades. The result today is impeccable, and the small square in front, with its cafés and half-timbered houses, is one of the most attractive corners of the old town.